Improvement in fire-iron holders



2 Sh.eetsSheet 1.

E. E. STOW. Fire-Iron Holders.

No.196,-103. Patented Oct. 16, I877.

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E. E. STOW. Fire-Iron Holders.

N0.196,103. Patented Oct. 16. 1877.

N FETERS. PH APHER, WASHINGTON D C Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,103,

August To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ENos E. STO of Plantsville, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire Set Holders, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists in the peculiar construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a front view of a fire-set holder which embodies my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the base of the same, taken on the lines aw of Figs. 4 and 5; and Figs. 4 and 5 are plan views of detached parts.

The base A, upright B, and cross-arm C, which, when taken together, constitute a shoveland-tongs stand, are old, and their general design and construction maybe of any desired pattern or style.

The rear portion of the base A (shown in detached plan view, Fig. 5) has a recess or depression, a, Figs. 3 and 5, formed on its upper side, near the middle of which recess is an orifiee, as shown in said figures. This recess a is filled by a correspondingly-shaped projection, b, on the under side of the blower-stand cross-arm D, which cross-arm D is provided with a like orifice and a depression, 0, Figs. 3 and 4, in its upper side. Surmounting this blower-stand cross-arm D is the base of the upright B, the lower end thereof resting in the depression 0 in the upper side of the cross-arm D, as shown in Fig. 3. Rigidly secured to the base of said upright, and extending downward through the orifices in the cross-arm D and base A, is a threaded shaft or rod, (I, provided with nut 6, Fig. 3, which, when tightened up, secures the several parts A, B, and D firmly together.

PATENT OFFICE.

EN OS E. STOW, OF PLANTSVILLE, ASSIGNOR TO THE PECK, STOW & WILCOX COMPANY, OF SOUTHINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

I IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-IRON HOLDERS.

dated October 16, 1877; application filed 13, 1877'.

The blower-stand cross-arm D is curved rearward at each end, as shown by a detached plan 'view of said cross-arm, Fig. 4, and in each of these curved ends there is an upright rod, E. The rearward curved ends of the eross arm D bring the rods E E so far back of the upright B that the space from front to rear between said parts may be utilized to receive ablower, as shown most clearly by the side elevation, Fig. 2. The parts D, E E, and B formacomplete blower-stand supported on the base A, of which parts the cross-arm D constitutes the base, the rods E E the rear supporting-arms, and the upright B the front.

Although I have hereinbefore described the exact construction of the device in all its details, as shown in the drawing, yet it is evident that the same may be varied without departing from the main features of my invention, one of which is a blower-stand having only three uprights for holding the blower; and to this end the support for the rods E E may be cast on, or otherwise attached to, the base A, either directly or indirectly.

By the foregoing construction the blowerstand may be added to the old shovel-andtongs stand at a very small expense, and in such a position that the blower stand is wholly in the rear of the shovel-and-tongs stand, and in no way interferes with its ordinary uses, thereby producing a complete fire-set holder in a single article of furniture.

I claim as my invention In a fire-set holder, the upright rods E E, in combination with the baseA and upright B of an ordinary shovel-and-tongs stand, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

' ENOS E. STOW.

Witnesses:

CHARLES D. BARNES, JOHN HEMINGWAY. 

